Recent content by Colbeatnik

I'm currently struggling with it as well. its fairly simple actually: take the points off, including plate and screw the red donut in place of it. The part that I don't understand is which way the inner rotor goes on, whether its the skinny side in or the fat side in. The fat side has the...

You think it could be as simple as bad washers? is the spindle supposed to be grounded? I'm assuming so but I've been wrong before.

I started with a short in my bike. Minimal Cafe Racer, no starter, odo, tach, or speedo. The wiring harness is bare minimum. Points, charging system and lights. It just stopped running and everytime I would turn the switch on it would show no voltage, flip it off: voltage. Chased ghosts for too...

Again, I appreciate your input but I already turned it clockwise with the plugs in it I need to know if it screwed something up and how I fix it. I shouldn't have screwed with it but I did and now I need to fix it. what should I check and what should I look for?

What if I did turn it clockwise without talking it the spark plugs?

So... I think I screwed up. Bike ran great (minor carb issues but that's the beast) until I broke a chain tensioner arm and a chain. While I was waiting for a master link I thought I'd adjust the cam tensioner? Remove the crown nut and turn the stator. So that's where I screwed up. I turned it...